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  • Research with Newcomer Children - Monica Valencia
    … So I would go to events or I will interview, I don’t know, newcomers. And then I saw this Master’s at Ryerson University. It was a one-year program: Immigration and Settlement Studies. I did the program. Two semesters. It was courses and then one semester, it was your own research. And I really enjoy that uh component of the program where I had the opportunity to design my own …
  • Michelangelo Guzzardi
    … is never an easy choice for anyone. My decision to immigrate to Canada from Catania, Sicily, came after a brief period in Switzerland … I boarded the Cristoforo Colombo in Messina, Sicily and made my nine-day journey to Canada. As one can imagine, leaving behind your parents, … your culture and your language is both daunting and scary. I chose to come by boat to Canada, hoping for a journey with some interesting …
  • Tips and Tricks: Band-aid Solutions for the Event Planner
    … works like a charm!). The next item on my list would be sandpaper . It can be used in a pinch as an emery board, to remove fuzzy pills on a … If your venue isn’t carpeted, a little scuff on those new stilettos can prevent a slip and fall! Fishing line also has its many uses. It is … at the ready.  I love being an event professional because each day is different with new clients, events, problems to solve and the …
  • Hike to Self-Rediscovery by Ardie
    … Time 0:02:44 Transcript I planned my life to have a career in media communication and with my mind set I spent my life to achieve that … opportunities to join group that allowed me to see what might my future will be in the world of media. My life was exciting attending … scent of blueberries, fresh grass and spruce all mixed in the air. I stopped to forage on wild blueberries and experienced how their taste …
  • A Cuban maestro’s cunning escape to freedom, told in five movements
    … 2018 opening of the Refuge Canada exhibition. First movement, Santiago de Cuba On January 1, 1959, Rafael Alcolado was a 12-year-old student at a Jesuit-run school, Colegio de Dolores , in Santiago de Cuba. That same day, on the other side of the island, former student of Dolores Fidel …
  • A Cuban maestro’s cunning escape to freedom, told in five movements
    … 2018 opening of the Refuge Canada exhibition. First movement, Santiago de Cuba On January 1, 1959, Rafael Alcolado was a 12-year-old student at a Jesuit-run school, Colegio de Dolores , in Santiago de Cuba. That same day, on the other side of the island, former student of Dolores Fidel …
  • Lieutenant John Forbes Monroe
    … and Halifax was fairly isolated from habitation. See photo. VE Day in Halifax, like many cities and towns throughout Canada, saw the … was at the Ammunition Depot, which had been previously closed for the day, was directed by the Senior Naval Officer in Halifax, to bring a …
  • Ernst Radke
    … brother and his wife came to Canada in 1929 and they encouraged us to come as well. Two more of my father’s brothers also decided to … Estonia. We made a stop in Copenhagen, Denmark where the ship took on food supplies for the travel across the Atlantic Ocean. The journey took 10 days. The seas were very rough for the first 9 days. My father said …
  • Ben Rina Fred Nettie Joop Lindeijer
    … Emigrating To Canada September 1956 The photograph below was taken in front of our … pictures. It was like going to the airport to see off relatives in the days when you could stand on the outside observation platform. You … knew where I was and in the event of the ship sinking, no one would come to my rescue, I panicked. Visions of water rushing in through the …
  • An Unexpected Treasure
    … Just the other day, to my surprise, I learned that I have been wearing a treasure … never told me that”, I replied. “I would have never thought that one day, my Canadian daughter would be coming over to my house to help me …

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